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US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling
Legal Events 07/06/2025Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended...
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Turkish court orders key Erdogan rival jailed pending trial on corruption charges
Legal Events 03/25/2025A court formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges.Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained following a raid on his residence ...
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Michigan mother asks judge to declare 3 missing sons dead nearly 15 years later
Legal Events 02/27/2025A Michigan woman is asking a judge to declare her three missing sons dead, nearly 15 years after their father didn’t return them after Thanksgiving. The disappearance has tormented a small town near Ohio and remains unsolved.Authorities believe...
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Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds
Legal Events 01/15/2025At a time of heightened political division, Americans’ confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record low of 35% this year, according to a new Gallup poll.The United States saw a sharp drop of 24 percentage p...
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Apple to pay $95 million to settle claims it used Siri to eavesdrop on customers
Legal Events 01/04/2025Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a civil lawsuit accusing the privacy-minded company of deploying its virtual assistant Siri to eavesdrop on people using its iPhone and other trendy devices.The proposed settlement filed Tuesday in an Oak...
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Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
Legal Events 09/10/2024One month after a judge declared Google’s search engine an illegal monopoly, the tech giant faces another antitrust lawsuit that threatens to break up the company, this time over its advertising technology.The Justice Department, joined by a co...
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UN court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal
Legal Events 07/21/2024The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of...
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Hunter Biden arrives at court for a final hearing before his June 3 gun trial
Legal Events 05/24/2024The judge overseeing Hunter Biden ’s federal firearms charges trial agreed Friday to block prosecutors from telling jurors about some other unflattering episodes from his personal life, but left the door open to allowing them in if the presiden...
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Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury convictions
Legal Events 05/21/2024The chief prosecutor of the world’s top war crimes court sought arrest warrants Monday for leaders of Israel and Hamas, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, over actions taken during their seven-month war. While Netanyahu and hi...
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What to know about abortion in Arizona under the near-total 1864 ban
Legal Events 04/12/2024The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pregnancies in a state likely to have a key role in the presidential...
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Former Georgia insurance commissioner John Oxendine pleads guilty
Legal Events 03/26/2024A former Georgia insurance commissioner who made a failed Republican run for governor has pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.John W. Oxendine of Johns Creek entered the guilty plea Friday in federal court in Atlanta. The 61-year...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction
Legal Events 03/02/2024Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer said Tuesday that a suggested 100-year prison sentence for the FTX founder by an arm of the court is “grotesque” and “barbaric” and at most a term of a few years behind bars is appropriate for ...